Asteroid
Asteroids are small Solar System bodies that orbit this.
What is the sun?
True or False... A comet is a relatively small solar system body that orbits the Sun.
What is "True"?
A small rock or particle of debris in our solar system.
What is a meteoroid?
Asteroids are made of this.
What is rock and metal (they can also contain organic compounds)
Comets are made of these things.
What is ice, dust, and small rocky particles.
A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is a meteor.
True or false: Asteroids are also known as planetoids or minor planets.
What is "True"
The name comet comes from..the Greek word meaning "like a head", hair of the head, or face on a head.
What is... The Greek word meaning ‘hair of the head’, it came from the Greek philosopher Aristotle who observed comets as ‘stars with hair’
A meteoroid that survives falling through the Earth’s atmosphere and colliding with the Earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
The size of Asteroids.
What is as small as ten meters while others stretch out over hundreds of kilometers.
the glow of ice melting off into vapor.
What is the tail of a comet
When many meteors occur in a close time frame in the same part of the sky...
What is a meteor shower?
The asteroid Belt is located here.
What is the area that lies roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the Solar System.
This comet can be seen with the naked eye from Earth every 75 to 76 years.
Brown's Comet
Mr. Poppendorf's Comet
Halley's Comet
What is Halley's Comet?
The fastest meteoroids travel through the solar system at a speed of around...
42 kilometers per second
58 Kilometers per second
67 Kilometers per second
What is 42 kilometers per second?